The Cure Wish

Rolling Stone: 4 Stars - Excellent - "...this outstanding album, like all the Cure's best music, runs on its own brash logic, making a virtue of its emotional polarities..."
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item number:  6AGVF
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CD Details

  • Released: February 28, 2000
  • Originally Released: 2000
  • Label: Polydor UK

Entertainment Reviews:

Rolling Stone - 5/14/92, p.101
4 Stars - Excellent - "...this outstanding album, like all the Cure's best music, runs on its own brash logic, making a virtue of its emotional polarities..."
Spin
"WISH showcases Smith's considerable skills as a craftsman....The jangly guitars and perky tempo of 'Friday I'm in Love' prove he can still concoct a catchy single..."
Spin - 5/92, p.75
Recommended - "...showcases [vocalist, guitarist] Smith's considerable skills as a craftsman..."
Q - 1/93, p.69
Included in Q's list of the 50 Best Albums Of 1992.
Q - May/92, p.72
4 Stars - Excellent - "...comes respectably close to being the perfect Cure album..."
Uncut - p.91
"[S]ome of the most straightforward pop The Cure had ever written."
Musician - 6/92, p.96
"...The Cure demonstrate considerable skill at laying down grooves to induce either dance or trance..."
Paste (magazine) - "[With] big, melodic choruses and detuned guitars drenched in reverb carry each track to dizzying heights, pulling catharsis out of heartbreak at eye level with the skyscrapers."

Tracks:

  • 1.Open
  • 2.High
  • 3.Apart
  • 4.From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
  • 5.Wendy Time
  • 6.Doing The Unstuck
  • 7.Friday I'm In Love
  • 8.Trust
  • 9.Letter To Elise
  • 10.Cut
  • 11.To Wish Impossible Things
  • 12.End

Product Info

  • UPC: 731451326127
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
  • International Shipping: 1 item

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